Bucharest

Adventure Holidays to Bucharest

Located in the southeast of Romania on the banks of the Dâmbovita River, this is the country's capital as well as its artistic and cultural centre. Here there's an eclectic architectural mix of Brancovan – where you see the Orthodox Christian influences of the people of Wallachia combining with the Islamic and Byzantine influences and ideology of the Ottoman Empire – neo-Romanian, Art Nouveau, and Communist-era mixing with the modern landscape. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and sophisticated elite earned Bucharest the nickname of the "Paris of the East" or "Little Paris". Although many buildings and districts in the historic centre were damaged or destroyed by war, in recent years city has been experienced an economic and cultural boom.